ID: 25876
Comment by: steve at bespokeinternet dot com
Reported By: golden at riscom dot com
Status: Closed
Bug Type: Session related
Operating System: freebsd 4.8
PHP Version: 4.3.3
New Comment:
We have had this problem with various sites running off the same server
(Apache/1.3.29 - Unix Server). A recent upgrade to 4.3.6 has not
resolved the problem.
Same sites worked fine on other servers running recent versions of
PHP.
Error message is sporadic and disappears with one or two refreshes.
With versions prior to 4.3.6 it was necessary to restart Apache to
clear the problem - that doesn't seem to be the case since the
upgrade.
Suggest reopening this bug report.
Previous Comments:
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[2004-05-05 07:27:32] tkaeser at gmx dot net
Hi,
had the same error, added the following line before starting the
session:
ini_set('session.save_handler', 'files');
this fixed it in my case...
I don't have any idea why this works, got it from
http://lists.mushaake.org/pipermail/php/Week-of-Mon-20031117/004091.html
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[2004-04-05 08:17:56] venkat at ehostpros dot com
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Problem :
Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module
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The solution (fingers crossed) was to clear the session.save_path
directory - it got thousands of session files there.
Hope it helps someone out there.
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The above solution works fine :)
Thanks,
Venkatesh.G
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[2004-04-01 16:37:42] php dot net at harrysufehmi dot com
I just experienced this problem with php 4.3.3
The solution (fingers crossed) was to clear the session.save_path
directory - it got thousands of session files there.
Hope it helps someone out there.
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[2004-03-08 05:38:31] hck7 at mailcity dot com
We installed PHP 4.3.1 and this problem disappears!!!
Thanks for all !!!
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[2004-03-02 04:49:14] ozone at sange dot fi
As suggested by mivox on Feb 12 in comments to bug 26038, which seems
to be a duplicate of this one, I added a line in my apache.conf:
php_value session.save_handler files
(source: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=260389 )
After this I haven't seen any problems (running for a bit less than a
day), but it's hard to say whether it really helped.
Maybe there are still problems with the initialization of session
parameters when PHP is running as a module and the same code is used to
serve lots of requests.
For me the problems started when using FreeBSD 4-STABLE (4.8 I think,
or even earlier) with PHP 4.2.x and continued with PHP 4.3.x, but they
were very infrequent when using Apache 1.3. Upgrading to Apache 2 made
problems turn up much more often and users started complaining loudly.
I applied the patch from CVS that was supposed to fix the problem to
PHP 4.3.4 (from FreeBSD ports) but it didn't help. Of course that's not
quite the same as trying a recent snapshot, but other people have tried
that and it didn't help either.
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